Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Director General Ruben Ciron, said in the weekly radio program “Para Sa Iyo Bayan” of Vice President Noli de Castro that he immediately ordered the relief of the air traffic control team’s supervisor and three others in the team.
But he ruled out sabotage from the air traffic controller personnel who left the control tower unattended and left three inbound flights delaying its landing Friday at the Zamboanga International Airport.
Zamboanga City Airport manager Celso Bayabos believed it was more complacency on the part of the five air traffic controllers.

A Philippine Airlines flight circled Zamboanga for almost an hour before it could land because no one was directing traffic from the control tower there yesterday, airline officials said.
They said Fight PR123, with 153 passengers, left Manila for Zamboanga at 5:06 a.m. and arrived there at 6 a.m., but no one from the control tower responded to the pilot’s repeated request for landing clearance.
The officials quoted the pilot as saying he kept asking the tower for clearance, but no one answered until 6:51 a.m., when the aircraft had already consumed 1,300 kilograms of fuel.
Zamboanga City airport manager Celso Bayabos said it was the first time such incident had occurred, and apparently because five air traffic controllers reported late.

The Nigerian National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has called on the Federal Government to remove the remuneration of its members from the civil service structure in line with the requirement of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
NATCA President, Jibrin Haske Ibrahim, told newsmen in Lagos yesterday that air traffic control was too sensitive for its practitioners to be under the civil service structure, especially in terms of remuneration. He said the current structure under which air traffic controllers operate was inimical to air safety, adding that air traffic services required dispatch uncommon under the bureaucracy of the civil service.  

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Nearly two thirds of air traffic controllers in Taiwan have difficulty communicating with foreign pilots, mainly due to the pilots' English accents, a survey released by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) showed Thursday.
The MOTC conducted the survey between April and July on 2,003 pilots of six Taiwan air carriers and 261 air traffic controllers of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Responses were obtained from 38.2 percent of the pilots and 93.5 percent of the air traffic controllers.
According to the survey, 74.6 percent of the air traffic controllers said they have difficulty communicating with foreign pilots.
The main reasons for the problems were found to be the level of English proficiency of the air traffic controllers and the English accents of foreign pilots from non-English speaking countries.

An air force report Wednesday blamed Brazilian air traffic controllers and two U.S. pilots for a midair collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people, but found no evidence the Americans intentionally turned off a transponder that warns of approaching aircraft.
The 277-page Brazilian air force report said Lepore and Paladino did not have sufficient knowledge of the aircraft's avionics, resulting in the inadvertent switching off of the plane's transponder and the collision-avoidance system.
"There is no indication that allows us to conclude that the transponder was intentionally turned off," the report said.
The Brazilian flight controllers failed to notice that the transponder was on standby and did not warn the American pilots that they were flying at the wrong altitude and on a collision course with the Boeing, the report said.

The EU and Eurocontrol, the inter-governmental agency for aviation navigation, have a major research and action plan under way to boost the operational efficiency of all civil and military aircraft moving across Europe's skies - by adding precision time-tracking of all air assets as the fourth dimension to today's air traffic management.
However, Europe's military forces doubt the project's merits and, above all, are concerned about the cost. Eurocontrol authorities admit they have not conferred enough with Europe's military air force and air traffic controller (ATC) communities, so they now plan to launch a new round of consultations in early 2009 in hopes of persuading them to back the plan.

A judge in Brazil dismissed negligence charges on Tuesday against two U.S. pilots accused of having contributed to Brazil's second-worst air disaster when their executive jet collided in mid-air with a Brazilian commercial airliner in 2006.
But Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino still face charges for allegedly putting aviation safety at risk by presenting a faulty flight plan and deactivating a security mechanism that could have avoided the collision, the court and the defense attorney said.
 
The pilots' lawyers welcomed the ruling but said all charges should be dropped.

Controller: "Wait, wait, wait. Flight Express 305, cancel takeoff clearance. Flight Express 305, cancel takeoff clearance and hold short of 2 Left."

But the Flight Express couldn't stop in time.  It rolled through the intersection just as the DHL jet crossed the end of the runway.

A few seconds difference, and the outcome could have been tragic.

Pilot: "Flight Express 305. Cleared 2 Left. Wasn't able to hold short. Sorry about that."
Controller: "Thanks for the attempt there, sir. It was totally our fault."

Brazilian Air Force investigation has concluded that a switched-off transponder contributed to a plane crash that killed 154 people in 2006, local media reported on Saturday.
The Estado de Sao Paulo and Folha de Sao Paulo newspapers said that Air Force investigators determined that the two American pilots of a New York-based executive jet had inadvertently placed the transponder and the collision-avoidance system on standby before colliding with a jetliner on Sept. 29, 2006.
The newspapers said the Air Force also concluded that flight controllers failed to alert the pilots that they were on a collision course and failed to notice that the transponder was turned off. Calls to the Air Force for comment went unanswered on Saturday. The report is scheduled to be released formally on Wednesday.